concept
Non-resistance to evil (неprotивление злу)
non-resistance to evil
also: непротивление злу
The doctrine most closely associated with the mature Tolstoy's Christian anarchism -- refusing to meet violence or coercion with violence -- articulated at length in works Tolstoy was writing and circulating in the very years this story is set and published; named by Likharev as his most recent conviction, implicitly aligning him with the contemporary Tolstoyan movement without naming Tolstoy directly.
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- On the Road §56 my latest faith was non-resistance to evil
"Neprotivlenie zlu" (non-resistance to evil) is the doctrine most closely associated with the mature Tolstoy's Christian anarchism -- refusal to meet violence or coercion with violence -- articulated at length in works Tolstoy was writing and circulating in the very years (the early-to-mid 1880s) this story is set and published; Likharev names it as the most recent in his sequence of total convictions, implicitly aligning his own restless idealism with the contemporary Tolstoyan movement without naming Tolstoy directly.
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